This one is alittle different. Just to warn you this is a Daryl/Beth story so move on if its not your thing. Will be mature and rape is implied but nothing graphic. Don't own anything. What if Daryl found Beth in the library the night before the run at the Big Spot after Zach raped her? What if he promised to fix it? What if he could have saved Zach but didn't and let him die for what he did? What if that hug wasn't Beth comforting Daryl but her thanking him? What if Beth needed him to help her after what happened? What if this brought them closer, brought them to each other? Will not follow a lot of this new season.
Daryl gritted his teeth after that blonde prick walked away from him smiling. He had just invited Zach on the run today but Daryl knew no matter what that mother fucker wouldn't be making it back home. Not after what he did.
Glancing over he saw Beth standing off to the side near the cell block entrance hugging her arms around her body and looking at him. He gave her a nod and she smiled back before going back inside to stay in her cell like Daryl ask her to.
Daryl still remembered last night. Hell he didn't get no sleep after what happened. He found Beth, naked on the floor of the library, bleeding and crying. Hand and mouth still tied and bruises starting to form on her legs, stomach and chest. That fucker had rape her. Violated her in the worst way. Stole her innocence from her and he had to pay.
They made it to the Big Spot in no time picking up Michonne on the way. He was glad to see her back in one piece. Daryl didn't much care for all the Woodbury people but he did care for the ones in his cell block and Michonne was part of that clock now. Along with Tyreese and Sasha.
Daryl kept his eye on Zach while they shopped. Grabbing things and running them to the trucks as they filled up bags and coming back in for more. Daryl's anger and disgust with this boy was growing as the day went on. He grabbed things in his bag he was after. Things for Carl, Ass kicker and Beth. That's what he came for. Once he got what he needed he zipped his bag and moved on.
He was about to get Zach when he heard a crash and then Bob screamed out. They all ran over and moved the shelves off of him and helped him stand. Just as they saved him walkers started falling from the ceiling and everyone ran for it. Daryl and Michonne looked back just as Zach fell with a Walker trying to bite his foot and another one crawling his way to him. Michonne went to run over to save him but Daryl held her back.
"No." Daryl told her looking over and watching Zach beg them for help and all Daryl could think about was Beth begging him to stop and he didn't so neither did Daryl.
"What?" Michonne ask in shock and Daryl watched as both Walkers bit into Zach and he screamed in pain before Daryl raised his bow and shot Zach in the head and pulled Michonne outside where the others were waiting.
Daryl knew Michonne would question him when they got back. Her eyes demanded answers and he knew he'd have to tell her. He'd also know she'd understand.
When they returned everyone unloaded the stuff as Daryl walked over.
"Zach?" Glenn ask and Daryl shook his head.
"Didn't make it." Was all Daryl said before walking his bike back over towards the shed. Michonne jogged up behind him.
"What the hell was that Daryl? You never leave a man behind and you let him die?" Michonne ask him and Daryl stood off the bike and faced her.
"I did it on purpose. That sick mother fucker don't deserve to be alive." Daryl hissed and Michonne looked at him.
"What happened?" Michonne ask him and he sighed lighting a cigarette.
"Promise you won't say shit?" Daryl ask her and she nodded.
"He raped Beth last night and beat her pretty good. I found her tied and gagged last night after. Promised her I'd fix it." Daryl said and Michonne inhaled deeply and nodded.
"Then you did the right thing." Was all she said before patting his shoulder and walking off.
Later that night Daryl found Beth laying on her bed in her cell wincing when she moved to much. She saw him standing there and sat up, looking at him and waiting.
"Its over. He wont hurt ya no more." Daryl told her and she nodded tears falling down her face and she walked over and hugged him tightly. He felt a warmth in his chest he'd never felt before when she arms went around him and the hugged her back awkwardly.
"Beth. Ya need to tell everyone. Well, the important people. They need to know and your father needs to check you over. We need to make sure your ok and that ya anit pregnant or nothing." Daryl told her. She pulled back looking worried but he shushed her.
"Don't. You anit got to tell the whole prison. Just the ones here in this block. The one's that's our family. They should know so they can help." Daryl told her she took a deep breath and nodded.
"Stay here. I'll round everyone important up in the meeting room and then come get ya. Well, do it together and then your dad can look you over." He said and she nodded.
"Will you. Will you stay with me while he does. I cant do that without you there." She ask and he blushed some but nodded.
"If he lets me I wont leave ya side." Daryl told her and she nodded and he walked away.
Rick, Carl, Hershel, Maggie, Glenn, Carol, Sasha, Tyreese and Michonne were all wondering why Daryl made them go to the meeting room so late at night but he seemed like it was urgent so they went. When he came inside with a very nervous looking Beth they were worried too.
"Sorry to bring yall all here so late but we need to talk without the others around. What is said here stays in this room." Daryl said and everyone nodded.
"Today on the run. Zach didn't make it because I let him die. I watched as Walkers tore into him before I shot him myself. Michonne was there and I wouldn't let her save him either." Daryl said and everyone gasp in shock.
"Why." Rick ask and Daryl looked at Beth. She stepped forward and Daryl but his hand on her shoulder and nodded to her while biting him thumb. Hershel and Maggie stood up in alarm at Beth's face.
"Daryl did it for me. Zach. Zach raped me last night in the library. Hurt me all over but only in places that clothes would cover. Daryl found me after, cleaned me up and got me back to my cell. He wanted to tell yall last night but I begged him not to. I was scared. Zach said. He told me that if I said anything he'd hurt others. Said he'd kill Judith or do the same to Carl or Maggie or whoever I'm close to. Said he lied to everyone when yall brought him in. He wasn't no college kid he was a rapist running from the law. Daryl took him out before he could hurt anyone else. I'm so sorry." Beth said and burst into tears. Maggie ran forward, crying herself and hugged her sister to her. Beth had a grip on Daryl's vest and wouldn't let it go so he just stood there next to the two girls and let them hug almost against him.
Hershel hobbled over and laid a hand on Daryl's shoulder and he turned to look at the old man.
"Thank you son. If I'd had known I'd have killed him myself for what he done." Hershel said with conviction and Daryl nodded.
"Damn right." Maggie agreed anger in her eyes.
"He's right. You did the right thing. I'd have done it too." Rick said and Carl nodded along with his father. One by one everyone agreed what Daryl did was justified and Daryl breathed a sigh of relief that his family understood.
"Bethy, we need to check you out if that's ok." Hershel said as he cupped her cheek. She nodded pulling back from Maggie.
"Only if Daryl stays and Maggie." Beth said and Hershel and Maggie looked at her and then Daryl who was blushing bright red.
"I'll keep my back turned so I don't see nothing but I can just be there since she wants me there." Daryl said and Hershel gave a nod and the four of them left to head to Beth's cell.
True to his word Daryl stayed at the head of Beth's bed with his back turned. All he could see was part of Beth's face from his side vision. She reached up and held his hand and he gripped it back tighter.
She was tense and jumped whenever her father or Maggie would touch her and she started hyperventilating at one point.
"Deep breaths Bethy, think of something else." Maggie told her and she nodded trying but it wasn't working.
"What ya miss most from before?" Daryl suddenly ask her and she looked over at him.
"What?" she ask him confused.
"What ya miss most. I miss fucking TV and air conditioning and not having to conserve my smokes because there anit many around no more. Oh and fucking apple pie. Loved good apple pie and Pizza but don't tell the china man that." Daryl told her and her breathing returned to a more normal pace and she chuckled. Maggie and Hershel shared a look and a smile knowing Daryl was good for her.
"I guess I miss the animals I had on the farm." Beth said and Daryl hummed.
"What one was your favorite?" Daryl ask her running his thumbs over her wrist as she still held his hand.
"This cat I use to have. Found it in the barn one day. Barely old enough to open his eyes. I hand feed him and nurse him to health. Loved that cat." She said and Daryl nodded.
"Never had no animals before. My old man was a bastard. Use to beat on me and Merle and our mom. We swear she died just to get away from him. He never let us have no pets. You're lucky to have a great family that loves ya. " Daryl and she she gripped his hand tighter in comfort and he returned it.
"What else ya miss?" Daryl ask and she thought for a moment.
"Reading I guess. We have some books here but I've read them already. I use to read a lot and I'd read anything from sappy love stories to scary stuff. Though I guess I don't need the scary stuff no more." Beth said with a chuckled and Daryl chuckled back in reply.
"Naw ya don't blondie. Just take a look outside. We got our very on freak show out there." Daryl told her and she laughed and he smiled at her laugh.
"You're doing great Beth. Nothing looks broken or fracture. Just some bruising but you did tear alittle down here and I need to put in a few stiches. There dissolvable ones so they wont have to be removed but I anit got to pain meds to give you before." Hershel said and Beth tensed but nodded. Daryl gritted his teeth in anger wishing he'd have beat that bastard to the ground first.
"Go ahead." Beth said sniffling and gasp as the pain of the needle hit.
"What was your favorite book?" Daryl ask her to distract her again.
"Ugh. I don't know. There's so many. Withering heights, Romeo and Juliet, Twilight." Beth listed and Daryl chuckled.
"That book about the sparkly vampire?" He ask and Beth chuckled at him too.
"Yeah. The movies were ok but the love story in the books was nice." She said and he grunted.
"Never really was much of a reader myself. Loved movies thought. I'd watch just about anything they made." He told her and she gripped his hand tighter in pain but kept talking cause it was helping.
"How old are you Daryl?" Beth ask him and he snorted.
"30 I guess." He told her and she nodded.
"What about you?" Daryl ask her.
"21. I've been keeping track." Beth said and he nodded.
"You looked younger than that." He told her and she snorted.
"Yeah. Get that from my mom. She looked a lot younger than she was." Beth said and Hershel chuckled.
"Yeah she was. I was scared as hell to ask her out when I met her. Thought I'd be going to jail. She was legal but a lot younger than me. 25 years to be exact." Hershel said and Daryl nodded. He never knew that.
"Age means nothing when it come to love." Beth commented.
"Were done. Do you want to take the morning after pill Beth?" Hershel ask and Beth nodded quickly.
"Yes. I don't want a baby by him." Beth said and Hershel nodded and handed her the pills and told her how to take them and what to expect.
"Will step out and you can dress Beth." Maggie said and they all left and stood outside the cell waiting.
"Thank you. For everything." Maggie told Daryl who blushed and nodded as she walked back to her cell looking for Glenn.
"Ya did good Daryl. Would make a good nurse." Hershel joked and Daryl snorted and rolled his eyes. Hershel limped back to his cell and Daryl knew the man probably go in there and cry to himself. What happened to his daughter would kill any good father, Daryl was sure.
When Beth pulled back the curtain she smiled sadly over at Daryl as he walked back over towards her.
"Thank you. For staying and for everything." Beth told him and he nodded.
"I got ya something." He said and she looked at him waiting.
"I heard somewhere girls like to write shit down when they need to gather their thoughts. Maybe it'll help." Daryl said and handed her a journal and a pack of pens. She took them and hugged him again and he hugged her back more comfortably this time before letting her go to sleep.
He stopped by Rick's cell on his way up to his own.
"Hey." Daryl said and Rick looked up from where he was feeding Judith.
"Hey. How is she?" Rick ask and Daryl shrugged.
"Hershel checked her. Had come tearing and bruises but that's about it." Daryl said and Rick winced and sighed.
"I really wish that hadn't happened to her. You did the right thing though." Rick said and he nodded.
"Yeah. Kinda wish I had beaten him to death instead but least his gone." Daryl said and Rick nodded.
"Here I got Carl and Asskicker some shit and got ya that smelly soap crap you like." Daryl said tossing a bag on his bed. Rick laughed as Daryl walked up to his cell for the night.
Daryl bolted awake suddenly when someone burst into his cell and yelled his name.
"What?" he ask blinking to see Maggie standing there looking worried.
"We need you. It's Beth." Maggie said and Daryl was up and out of his cell running down the stairs and into Beth's cell where Hershel and Glenn were trying to get her calmed down. Most of the cell block was awake and looking on as Daryl entered.
"What happened?" he ask and Hershel sighed in relief to see him.
"She woke up screaming. Had a nightmare. We finally got her awake but I think she's still suck in the dream. She won't let anyone go near her." Hershel said and Daryl nodded and strolled over and kneeled down in front of Beth who had backed herself into a corner and was crying.
"Beth. It's ok girl." Daryl said and it was the same thing he said when he found her and it snapped Beth out of her dream like memories and launched herself into his lap. He grunted and had to brace himself for the impact as she gripped his shirt in her hands and cried into his chest. He looked wide eyed at Hershel and Maggie when he wasn't sure what to do since it didn't look like she'd let him go any time soon.
"Um. So you mind staying with her until she goes to sleep?" Hershel ask and Daryl nodded and lifted Beth off the floor and laid her next to him on her bed. She curled around him and he let her cry and mumble apologizes into his shirt until she drifted off, long after everyone left.
Daryl didn't want to move to wake her so he closed his eyes and finally got some sleep.
He was gone when she woke up late that morning but she knew he had stayed the night with her and helped her get some sleep. She slept dream free once he got there and hopped she didn't keep him up all night.
"Morning. How ya feeling?" Carol ask her when she came into the common room. She smiled and sat next to her father and started nibbling on her breakfast.
"Good once Daryl got there. Sorry if I work everyone up." Beth said and Carol patted her hand and smiled.
"Don't be. I'm glad Daryl was able to help." She said and walked over to kiss Tyreese good morning once he came in from watch.
The next few days were the same. She'd spend the day taking care of Judith or helping Carol around the place with food and cleaning. She'd write her thoughts in here Journal before going to bed. She'd wake up from bad dreams and end up either in Daryl's cell of having him come to her if she woke up screaming and then he'd hold her the rest of the night. He never complained or made her feel weak because of it and she thought maybe he liked not sleeping alone all the time.
A week after her attack Daryl walked through the common room carrying a little black fur ball of a cat and headed straight to Beth's cell. Hershel and Maggie were sitting at one of the tables and saw him.
"Daddy, what do you think about Beth and Daryl?" Maggie ask him and he smiled.
"I think there prefect for each other. I think Daryl is what she needs and I think he'll be patient with her and keep her safe. I think she'll show him what having a family and being loved is all about but I'm also keeping my nose out of it too." Hershel said and Maggie nodded just as a piercing squeal of delight sounded through the block and Hershel chuckled.
"Oh my god. Daryl. You got me a kitten." She cried in joy. When Daryl had come to her cell early and told her he found something in the woods she might like she looked up and saw the little black kitten in his hands and the smile on his face and she screamed in happiness.
"Oh Daryl. She's lovely. Is she mine?" she ask and Daryl nodded.
"Yep. All yours." He said and she hugged him again tighter than the last few times and Daryl decided he wanted to do more things for make her smile and hug him more. He was starting to like have her touch him. Normally she jerked away from touch but Beth was different.
She took the kitten and held him to her chest and rubbed his head chattering happily as she sat on the bed, smile never leaving her face for once and Daryl went out on watch pleased with himself.
Later that night Beth showed up like normal with the black kitten in her hands and shifted from foot to foot.
"Can Dixon and I stay tonight?" she ask and Daryl chuckled.
"Dixon?" he ask laughing and she nodded.
"Yeah. He's a boy and I thought it was a good name. You don't mind do you?" she ask as she climbed into the bed after Daryl slid against the wall. He snorted and went ahead and wrapped his arm around her waist and laid back down.
"Naw. It's your cat. Can name it what ya want." He told her and she smiled in the darkness and let the purr of the kitten and the warmth of Daryl pull her to sleep.
Two weeks had gone by and it was normal routine now for Beth and Daryl to share a bed at night either in her cell or his. All they ever did was sleep but neither one could sleep without the other anymore and no one in there block said anything about it.
Beth stop having nightmares as long as Daryl was there and Daryl found he sleep soundly through the night for the first time in his life with Beth there. He never once ask her to leave or said anything about it bothering him. When he come back from watch on his nights he'd come to Beth's cell, on nights neither had watch they'd retire to Daryl's cell together. It became a normal thing for them.
Beth had gotten better about letting the men in her block near her now. She still flinched at times but not as bad and as long as Daryl was around she was fine. The men in the other Cell block however Beth still couldn't be around unless Daryl was there. They all made her jumpy because she didn't know them and didn't know if they were just like Zach.
Daryl had been a god send for Beth. He was sweet to her. Called her sweetheart all the time. Bought her things back from runs. One day he laid a stack of book on her bed that he carried in his backpack when they went on a run and she couldn't help but notice the ones she told him were her favorite were on the top. Daryl didn't things for her that he never did for anyone else and it made Beth feel special.
One day about a month after her attack one of the Woodbury women who had been eyeing several of the men in their block had decided to set her sights on Daryl. Beth felt jealousy eating at her so bad that she didn't know what to do. Daryl wasn't technically hers but in her mind he was so she didn't know what to do.
Daryl had been dodging that red headed leech all day and it was starting to piss him off. She had tried getting with several of the men at the prison and she didn't seem to care if any of them were with someone. When she tried it with Rick last week Michonne quickly threatened to slice off her head so now she was after Daryl and Daryl shuddered at the mere thought of her touching him. Only Beth and maybe a few of the women from there block could touch him but Beth was the one he allowed near him the most and he could see in her eyes how upset this women was making Beth when she tried hanging on Daryl at dinner.
Beth had been so mad she left dinner without eating and hide in her room. She didn't know if Daryl would want Beth in his cell that night if he planned to entertain this women and that thought allow damn near brought Beth to a murderous rage so she waited in her cell to see what happened.
When Daryl got back from walking the fences with Michonne that evening he planned to take a shower and head to Beth's cell to grab her for the night and try to talk with her some. He had been wanting to talk with her for a while now about them but he was always afraid it was too soon but with this women upsetting Beth and the boys from the other block making eyes at Beth when she wasn't looking Daryl knew he needed to get his ass in gear.
When he reached his cell his yell of rage was so loud everyone in there block step into the halls to see what had pissed off the dangerous hunter so bad.
"What the fuck do you think your doing?" he screamed to someone inside his cell. Beth wasn't sure who it was but whoever it was, was making him so made he was red in the face.
"I just thought you'd like some company tonight Daryl." The red head Stacy said from where she was laying under his covers in Beth's spot naked. Daryl had never hit a women in his life but he was very close to doing it right now.
"I don't want your skanky ass anywhere near me bitch. You got 2 seconds to get your ass out of my bed or I'm going to put an arrow in it." Daryl growled in anger. She flinched back in fear but didn't move thinking maybe he was bluffing. Daryl growled loudly and stalked forward, yanked her off the bed by her arm, grabbed her clothes off the top bunk and dragged to kicking and screaming as she tried to keep her body covered in his blanket out of his cell and down the steps where is tossed her on the floor in front of everyone and threw her clothes in her face.
Everyone stared at the scene with wide eyes. Daryl hadn't been this made since Merle died. He was panting and pacing and was coiled tight in anger as he glared down at the whore.
"If you ever come near me again or come to my cell or fuck even talk or touch me again I'll drag your whore ass out the fence myself and toss you to the walkers." Daryl spat and the women nodded in fear and she watched as he stomped back up the stairs grabbed the sheets and pillows off his bed and came back down the stairs and threw them at her.
"You stunk up my shit with your smell. Take it with you." Daryl told her. He was so mad she had the nerve to try this with him when he had been nicely brushing her off all damn day.
"Daryl." Beth said and he felt her little hand in his and he looked over at her. Her face and touch alone calmed him enough to move back from the women still on the floor.
"Get your shit. Anit got nothing on my bed right now. I'm going to shower and I'll meet you in my cell." He said before kissing the top of her head after she nodded and left for the shower.
Beth glared at the women on the floor who couldn't believe Daryl picked Beth over her and she walked into her cell and collected her pillows and sheets and blanket and kitten and marched right past the women and into Daryl's cell.
The women stood from the ground and wrapped the sheets around her body as she looked around at everyone who was looking at her in disgust.
"You're ok with your daughter sleeping with Daryl?" she ask Hershel who just snorted in a chuckle.
"My daughter is a grown women and has been sleeping either in her cell or his together for a month. You're lucky he didn't shoot you." Hershel said before walking back into his cell laughing at what he just saw. That women was damn lucky.
"I think you've crossed enough lines lady. Either stick to your own cell block or leave." Michonne said from beside Rick as she fingered her blade. Huffing but nodding she stomped back to her cell block rejected.
When Daryl returned from the showers Beth had changed the bed with her things and was laying on the bed with Dixon waiting on him.
"Hey." He said as he dropped his things in the corner and slide in behind her.
"Hey." She said turning to look at him.
"Are you mad you can't have women in your cell because of me?" Beth ask and he snorted at the thought.
"Fuck no. You're the only one I want here anyways." He said looking at her shyly.
"Beth. I been wanting to talk to ya. I know you been though a lot and I'm not asking for anything I just wanted ya to know I care about ya. I may not be the best man for ya but I want to be. If you want that is to be my girl." He said chewing on his thumb and not looking at her. She sat up and pulled his finger out of his mouth and leaned forward and kissing him. It started out sweet and he returned it eagerly until she pulled back.
"I want to be your girl Daryl. I love you. I just didn't think you saw me that way. And you are the best man for me." She said and he gave her a smile before reaching forward and running his finger down her cheek.
"Them your my girl." He told her and she nodded.
"Does that mean you mine too?" Beth ask biting her lip and Daryl chuckled.
"Yep. Anit ever wanted anyone else." He told her and she kissed him again and Daryl was a happy man.
Beth was surprised but Daryl was the most patient man she'd ever met. He was very affectionate to her, even around the others now that they were officially a couple. She had even moved her things into his cell that next morning so no one would question anything again.
Daryl never once tried to make any moves of Beth knowing after what she went through kissing was all she could handle right now and Daryl was more than fine with that. He'd never had a lot of women anyways so waiting wasn't anything to him. Yeah he wanted her that way but he was fine with what they had that he never once tried to pressure her for anything more. He loved her too much to hurt her in anyway. And yes he did love her. He'd never loved anyone before but he knew he loved her.
Hershel was more than pleased when Beth told him she was moving in with Daryl and wished them the best of luck but he knew they wouldn't need it. A love like there's would never fade.
When the flu hit the prison Daryl was scared to death he'd lose Beth. He made her stay in that office with ass kicker while he went to get everyone meds with Bob, Tyreese and Michonne while Hershel, Maggie, Rick and Carol took care of everyone.
When he got back and found out she was ok he couldn't be move relieved. It had been 3 months since her rape and almost losing everyone to a sickness made Beth realize she needed to be closer to Daryl, tomorrow wasn't promised anymore.
When he came to bed that night tired and worried about all the sick people in A block he was surprised to find Beth still awake in the bed wearing only one of his sleeveless shirts.
"What's up sweetheart?" he ask sitting his bow down and walking up to her. She didn't say anything only sat up on the on her knees and started helping him remove his clothes. When she got him out of everything but his pants he could feel her shaking and he stopped her hands as she reached for his belt.
"Beth, are you sure about this? We anit gotta. I'll wait as long as you need." He told her and she nodded.
"Just. Go slow I'm nervous. I just wish I was still pure for you." She said and Daryl cupped her cheeks in his large hands and pulled her eyes to look at his.
"In my eyes baby you are pure." He said and kissed her deeply.
He went slow with her just like she ask. He removed her clothes from her slowly, kissing her body as he went. Loving her slowly. He'd never gone slow before but for Beth he'd do anything.
He brought her to her first orgasm with his mouth and fingers and Beth was flying high on pleasure. She was no longer nervous, she no longer felt used or tainted. Daryl healed her with his touch and when he entered her for the first time she felt no pain, only love and pleasure.
When she woke the next morning they were still wrapped around each other naked but they were happy, healthy and there people would heal.
The governor came that next day and Daryl had enough of that one eyed bastard and took the shot like Carl suggested before he could hurt Hershel or Michonne. There group quickly followed his lead and took out all the governors new people with little injury to their people and the prison was safe. Beth was safe and that was all that matter to Daryl now.